Markets are capped on ARV, no matter if you make the bathrooms out of solid gold or plastic. 

I would tell him Dude AA is the largest buyer of jet fuel they are not going to let some yahoo sitting in his basement office in Portland OR get in the middle a trade and make 500k  LOL  he then went off to Africa looking for Gold :)

That's basically financial gold.

And because wholesaling has relatively low barriers to entry, the space is saturated with people chasing a new “gold rush.”Still, if you approach it with discipline, the right mindset, persistence, and dedication, there's no reason you can't succeed.One more thing: everyone has an opinion on the “best” way to run your business.

Is it $99 per month or something that comes along with their $10,000 gold, platinum, super-secret coaching program?

I think younger investors with a long term horizon (time) and maybe not any rehab experience this is a gold mine to buy new.

Keep cash against other forms of assets if it's truly retirement such as gold, equities, btc.

He is a financial advisor worth his weight in gold. 

I didn’t have a full team in place beforehand, but doing the deal forced me to build one—and that’s the same team I still use today.Referrals are gold when it comes to finding good contractors, lenders, etc.

The ones that had high rent growth, lax zoning laws, and general buzz about multi family gold mines.